Peca hasn't been that bad; the "joke" boils down to a taunt about his salary. As things stand, Edmonton's got a 13-11 record and Calgary's 14-10. Edmonton's payroll stands at $32 million, and Calgary's payroll is $36M. So you tell me which front office spent its money irresponsibly.

Among Oiler forwards, only Laraque has fewer goals (Peca's on pace for 4 on the season, by the way), and only Laraque has a worse +/- than Peca's -3. Pisani is a frickin' +10: how is this explicable in any way that's favourable to Peca?

I get that winning 3 faceoffs for every 2 you lose is good, but that alone does not make you an NHL player. And he's getting worse.

If you want to convince me I'm wrong, start by naming an Oiler who takes a regular shift who's less important to the team than Peca.

He's -3 playing directly, and almost exclusively, against the other team's deadliest individual weapon every night. If he's not on the roster, his minutes get transferred to who exactly?--Kyle Brodziak? We're 24 games into the season. And the Oilers, Peca and all, are outscoring the Flames by almost a half-goal per game.

There's one Bible quote that needs to go up on this weblog. "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." I hardly need to add that it's from the book of Matthew.

Just Wednesday, I watched him qualitatively pass the puck right to Minnesota for the tying goal in the 3rd period. (Deadly individual weapon Pascal Dupuis scored, with the assist to deadly individual weapon Randy Robitaille).

Tough for me to win around here. If I say something mean about the Oil, I'm a hypocrite. If I say something nice, or neutral, I'm a closet fan. I think I'd rather be a hypocrite.

And I have no idea why I ever got on the court at Sir Winston. I had no intangibles I can think of; it must have been for comic relief.

"Tough for me to win around here. If I say something mean about the Oil, I'm a hypocrite. If I say something nice, or neutral, I'm a closet fan."

I love how he actually cannot bring himself to think of an alternative, like as if just hypothetically this weblog was supposed to cover two teams. Apparently they don't teach the fallacy of the excluded middle in them there Ontario universities.